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This richly illustrated book focuses on an unusually and rarely elucidated subject in the world of Islamic art: human depictions. Through seventy-five important works of Islamic art from the David...

With an updated cover, this facsimile edition brings back into print the crucial 1987 overview of Munari's wide-ranging oeuvreOne of the last surviving members of the Futurist generation, Bruno...

At first glance, Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographic portrait of King Henry VIII of England is arresting: his camera has captured the tactility of Henry's luxurious furs and silks, the elaborate...

American photographer Sabine Mirlesse's As If It Should Have Been a Quarry was shot in Iceland and was inspired by the country's frequent volcanic activity, specifically the eruption in the village...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium...

""The dominant perspective of the thirteen essays collected in Image-Music-Text is semiology. Barthes extends the 'empire of signs' over film and photography, music criticism . . . and writing and...

This enchanting, humorous history of dinosaurs is told by the last surviving dinosaur on Earth, Tony T-Rex.Tony T-Rex’s Family Album is a tongue-in-cheek history of dinosaurs as told by Earth’s last...

"I believe that at present we must paint nature's rich and magnificent aspects; we need good cheer and happiness, hope and love." -- Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo...

Through rich paintings and a vivid telling of the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Thom Rosss shares his colorful, dramatic interpretations of the event and of the mythic figures who were...

Mythical Diary is a visual journey through the classical sculpture of the Archaeological Museum of Naples. It is a physical engagement with the marble bodies of myth. Through his black and white...

An exploration of a new approach to text generation that interprets systemic grammar as a computational representation. Patten demonstrates that systemic grammar can be easily and automatically...

"It may seem absurd to talk about revolution. But all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd." Best known for his meticulous translations of...

Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the...

Roland Barthes remains one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text is his most widely taught work. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this...

How And What Do We See And Know When We Look At A Painting? Conversely, How Do We Visualize The Literary Text? These Questions Are The Focus Of Claude Gandelman's Virtuoso Essays On Reading And The...

Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned...

Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer"Bloom's unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and...

In April of 2006, the Department of State announced that the late Cuban born conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres would represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale (June 1-November 21)...